Grants

From Private Sources

James Irvine Foundation for the People of California
1 Market Plaza, Spear Street Tower, Suite 1715
San Francisco, Calif. 94105

The Irvine Foundation, whose support is restricted to nonprofit
organizations benefiting Californians, has made the following grants to
California groups and agencies:

Arts. Toward continuing support of the Youth Arts Mentorship
Program: $50,000 to the County of Santa Barbara Arts Fund, Santa
Barbara.

Children, youths, and families. Toward staff support of the
strategic-action committee and the development of an effective
governance structure for the implementation phase of the San Diego
Children's Initiative: $104,000 to the United Way of San Diego
County.

Children, youths, and families. For expenses related to the
Children's Public Policy Assessment: $61,224 to the James Irvine
Foundation, San Francisco.

Children, youths, and families. Toward an assessment of the Parent
Involvement Campaign in Long Beach middle schools: $15,000 to Children
Now, Oakland.

Community service. For consultant costs associated with the
California Initiative for National and Community Service: $50,000 to
the James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco.

Health. For the Health Outreach Mentor and Intervention Services
Program for adolescents in South Central Los Angeles: $75,000 to the
Watts Foundation Community Trust, Los Angeles.

Youth development. In support of its strategic-planning process and
toward the salary of the curator of education: $200,000 to the
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Youth development. Toward the support of the Boys and Girls Club of
Humboldt's Youth Center: $180,000 to the Humboldt Area Foundation,
Bayside.

Youth development. Toward the implementation of the first phase of
the Irvine Youth Development Initiative: $150,000 to the Fresno
Regional Foundation, Fresno.

Youth development. Toward an organizational audit of the Girls
After-School Academy: $10,000 to the San Francisco Women's Centers
Inc., San Francisco.

Youth employment. For L.A. Youth at Work, a work-experience program
that places students in private-sector summer and after-school
employment: $100,000 to the Private Industry Council of the city of Los
Angeles.

Agriculture. To provide an opportunity for teachers and
administrators to experience Nebraska's agricultural history and gain
an appreciation for the role of agriculture in the economy: $15,000 to
the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

At-risk youths. To strengthen and replicate a leadership-development
and academic and arts mentorship program for at-risk African-American
male youths: $310,000 to the Ellington Fund, Washington, D.C.

Careers. To encourage students to work toward realistic career goals
through involvement with the community, local universities, area
businesses, civic groups, and health-care institutions: $25,000 to the
Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation, Evansville, Ill.

Educational technology. To strengthen classroom instruction by
helping schools improve their selection of educational technology and
the training of educators in its use: $84,043 to Indiana University,
Bloomington.

Entrepreneurship. To encourage young men to become entrepreneurs by
producing, marketing, and distributing baked products and to replicate
this idea in at least eight sites: $161,842 to the National Center for
Youth Entrepreneurship Services, Washington, D.C.

Gang intervention. To replicate a gang-intervention program, "Street
Soldiers": $270,000 to Omega Boys Club of San Francisco, Calif.

Gang intervention. To expand a program that helps boys who are
engaged in gang activities become a constructive part of their
communities through leadership development and community service:
$300,000 to Leadership, Education, and Employment Opportunities Inc.,
Boston, Mass.

Leadership. To develop and replicate within local chapters a
mentoring and rites-of-passage program that includes inter-generational
and leadership development and fatherhood and responsibility training:
$400,000 to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Baltimore, Md.

Leadership. To disseminate within African-American Men and Boys
project areas and nationwide a successful educational model to
strengthen young black males' motivation and achievement: $400,000 to
Piney Woods (Miss.) Country Life School.

Leadership. To strengthen the capacity of K-12 educators to reach
young people with water-resources education by establishing a
leadership-training and network-building initiative: $10,000 to Montana
State University, Bozeman.

Mentors. To improve the lives of African-American young men through
a community-based mentoring, apprenticeship, and entrepreneurship
training program: $74,000 to the city of Dermott, Ark.

School reform. To strengthen school-reform initiatives within
Michigan and at the state level: $10,000 to the Michigan Association of
School Boards Foundation for Education Leadership, Lansing.

Tutors. To replicate a grades 1-12 tutorial program to improve
educational, social, leadership, and personal-development skills of
students in African American Men and Boys project sites: $125,000 to
Project 2000 Inc., Washington, D.C.

Youth development. To provide inner-city youths with the opportunity
to build the competence and confidence needed to support a positive
transition to constructive adult roles in service to their communities:
$30,000 to the Greater Cleveland (Ohio) Neighborhood Centers
Association.

Youth development. To replicate the Boys Choir of Harlem program to
provide students with a comprehensive program of education, counseling,
and performing arts: $250,000 to the Boys Choir of Harlem Inc., New
York City.

Youth development. To provide participants in foundation-assisted
projects with skills and opportunities to learn about, create, and
operate businesses: $265,000 to the National Foundation for Teaching
Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged and Handicapped Youth Inc., New York
City.

Youth development. To establish a curriculum-based strategy of
education and entrepreneurial development for redirecting young men
toward social responsibility: $300,000 to the Opportunities
Industrialization Center of America Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.

Youth development. To improve the learning environment and academic
performance of preschool and elementary students and promote parent and
community involvement: $956,300 to the Detroit (Mich.) Public
Schools.

Youth development. To effect comprehensive school improvement that
will result in developmental responsiveness and heighten achievement
for all middle-grades students in Michigan public schools: $150,000 to
Sherrill Middle School, Detroit Public Schools; $149,590 to Angelique
Beaubien Middle School, Detroit Public Schools; $150,000 to
Southwestern Junior High School, School District of the City of Battle
Creek; $149,364 to Kalamazoo Public Schools; $128,216 to Vanderbilt
Area Schools; $149,700 to Bendle Public Schools, Burton.

The Kellogg Foundation has also given 10 Detroit-area middle schools
grants of $10,000 each to help students improve their math and reading
skills. The schools receiving "Middle Start" grants include:

High-risk students. To support three programs at this public-private
school for high-risk students: $45,000 to the Urban Collaborative
Accelerated Program, Providence, R.I.

Juvenile justice. To support the Juvenile Justice Program, aimed at
reducing the rise in crimes committed by youths in upper Manhattan:
$25,000 to the DOME Project Inc., New York City.

Science and mathematics. To develop a "World of Discovery," program
that will create opportunities for minority girls in science and math:
$211,700 (over three years) to the Girl Scout Council of Greater New
York, New York City.

Mathematics. For a math program that promotes problem-solving and
everyday math skills for 20 mentally handicapped students: $1,330 to
the Madonna School, Omaha, Neb.

Science. To enhance science instruction for at-risk students by
providing them with a program designed to heighten awareness of
chemistry in their environment: $2,000 to Landmark Career Academy,
Alexandria, Va.

Science. For an earth science program for 500 middle school
students: $4,930 to Mountain Grove Elementary School, Mountain Grove,
Mo.

From Federal Sources

The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor
have selected 37 communities to receive local school-to-work
partnership grants totaling more than $20 million. The grants are
awarded jointly by the departments to 22 states and Puerto Rico. The
awards will go to communities that have formed partnerships between
their education and business sectors to help young people make the
transition from school to careers.

Exact grant amounts will be determined by the scope of the proposed
initiatives and size of the communities. The recipients are listed
below by state.

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